Exposition

In and out of memory: exploring the tension when remembering a traumatic event. (2015)

Anna Walker
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About this exposition

The modernist approach to trauma points to an occurrence that demands representation and yet refuses to be represented (Roth 2012: 93); the intensity of the experience makes it difficult to remember and impossible to forget, making any form of recollection inadequate. This exposition explores the repetitive and unresolved notion of trauma using 11 September 2001 as the entry point to navigate a pathway backward into the past and all that was remembered, and uncovers what was forgotten in an effort to lay a traumatic memory to rest. The research began with a journal written on the day of and days following the disaster, which up until a couple of years ago remained closed and unread. Personal remembering is layered upon a well-established collective memory of the event and a vast array of literature, art, and theory written in response to 9/11.
typeresearch exposition
keywordstrauma, memory, ghosts, Derrida, 9/11, September 11, affect, sound, installation, moving images, autoethnography, writing, journal, Freud, spectre, Twin Towers, body
date01/01/2015
published31/08/2015
last modified31/08/2015
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationPlymouth University
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/99519/99520
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.99519
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue8.


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